Posted: Wed 20 Jul 2005, 03:02 Post subject:
X no good with Neomagic; how can I boot to command prompt?

As in former Puppy versions I got a screen (green, yellow, hard to read) - i know, the problem is caused by the NEOMAGIC graphic chip.
Going back to the console (by CTRL/ALT/BACKSPACE or via START button) leads to a console witch isn't usable (white background and and a very strange font, that isn't readable by humans).
Is there a way, to put the console back to a usable shape, I remember, there was a command "reset", but that doesn't work ?
I think, it would be helpfull, to have an item at the bootprompt, to go to the consol without starting X automatically. After this one can use "framebufferwizard" and fix the problems.
Any other idea how to solve my problems?

How can I edit the file, when I don't have a Puppy-screen (console or X), I can work with, becaused by the problems, I discribed above ?
Is there a way to change the contents of the iso (or the burned CD) by booting a different LINUX and mount the CD or something else ?
Sorry for this questions, I'm just doing my first steps in LINUX.

How can I edit the file, when I don't have a Puppy-screen (console or X), I can work with, becaused by the problems, I discribed above ?
Is there a way to change the contents of the iso (or the burned CD) by booting a different LINUX and mount the CD or something else ?
Sorry for this questions, I'm just doing my first steps in LINUX.

The file you need to edit is in the pup file on the hard drive and not on the CD-ROM or .ISO

Yes, you can mount the pup file from another Linux and edit the file. I don't know where the pup file is on your computer.

Suppose:

* the pup file is on hda1
* the name of the pup file is pup001
* the mount point for hda1 is /mnt/hda1
* and hda1 is already mounted

Then you would do this:

# mkdir /mnt/pupxxx

# mount -t ext2 -o loop /mnt/hda1/pup001 /mnt/pupxxx

# your_ editor /mnt/pupxxx/.etc/profile

* replace your_editor with the actual name of your editor

* adjust the commands for the actual mount points and names as required

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